The Hoja Project was set up as a UK registered charity in 2005 and since 2013 has now run under the charity registration of COCO (Comrades Of Children Overseas). COCO has supported Hoja since the very early days, so this represents no real change in the day-to-day operation of Hoja.

COCO's webpage on Hoja can be found here, and they regularly produce news on all their projects. This blog is updated on a volunteer basis, so new posts tend to be every few months.

Wednesday, 25 November 2009

Let Our Sponsored Students Introduce Themselves [video]

I did some filming when I was working on the Project in Tanzania from May 'til August this year. These are some of the students I filmed, introducing themselves.



Let Us Introduce Ourselves - Hoja-COCO Students Part 1 (7 Minute Version) from Phil Hatchard on Vimeo.

What we'd like to do with this is to start up some dialogue between some UK students (or students from elsewhere) and our sponsored students. I have quite a lot more footage, and will be editing together some of the questions that Hoja-COCO students would like to ask of students from developed countries, in the next couple of days.

If you'd like to be a part of this, please get in touch with me and let me know - my email is philhatchuk@yahoo.co.uk.  All videos will be uploaded to this album.

In other news, we're quite excited that Oswin, Hoja's founder and my good friend, is coming all the way over from Tanzania to visit us.  He's arriving in Newcastle today, and then will be coming down to London from the 6th December until the 14th.  He'll be leading various talks at schools and colleges, taking part in workshops, and attending COCO's annual ball and AGM.
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